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Special Protection Measures [DOC] Committee on the Rights of the Child CRC -- NGO
Commentaries to the Initial Report of the Kyrgyz Republic on the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child, January 03, 2000 www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.24/kyrgystanNGOreport.doc [accessed 12 June 2011] [page 26] C. CHILDREN SUFFERING
EXPLOITATION (INCLUDING ISSUES OF PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY AND
SOCIAL REINTEGRATION) - Prostitution is a serious and growing social problem in the There are young women and
children, some as young as 11 or 12, traveling regularly in trains for great
distance with different mail companions. They provide sexual services before
being left at a terminus station. On arrival at the train’s destination
point, the abandoned children become street children for a day or two until
they find another traveling customer. (Peter Blackley,
SCF) ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - KYRGYZSTAN [PDF] ECPAT International, 2008 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-KYRGYSTAN.pdf [accessed 12 June 2011] The Centre for the Study of Public
Opinion El Pikir - the lead agency of the ECPAT
affiliate in UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/kyrgyzstan.html [accessed 10 June 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004
Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/kyrgyz-republic.htm [accessed 29 November 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are reported to work as prostitutes in urban areas
throughout the country. The Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61657.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – A flourishing commercial sex
industry exploited girls as young as age 10 from destitute mountain villages. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 October 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kyrgyzstan2004.html [accessed 17 February 2011] [61] The Committee is concerned
that the recommendations made upon consideration of the State party’s initial
report with regard to the involvement of children in sexual exploitation have
not been fully implemented. The Committee is also concerned about the health
risks posed to children who are sexually exploited and/or trafficked. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation
of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights,
Fifty-ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 12 June 2011] [50] [51] In 2001, the Kyrgyz
Government launched “New Generation”, a National Plan of Action for
Children’s Rights, and in April 2002 launched a National Program on the
Elimination of Human Trafficking and Sale of People, aiming at the prevention
of these violations, improvement of law-enforcement bodies and migration
structures, and assistance and rehabilitation for victims to return to their
countries. The Plan for Children’s Rights does not include
provisions related to sale of children, child prostitution or child
pornography, and the National Program launched in 2002 does not include
special provisions for children. There is a lack of data as to the
number of children involved in sale, trafficking, prostitution and
pornography, and data about relevant prosecutions is not made available to
civil society on the grounds of State secrecy. National Consultation on the Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children (CSEC) ECPAT International, Bishkek, 24 October 2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June 2011] Increasingly vulnerable children
represent a potential source of income for various forms of individual and
organized criminality that over the past few years have enormously increased
their activities and turnover by exploiting young victims through
prostitution; trafficking for sexual and other purposes; and child
pornography. ECPAT: Situational Analysis of the Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children [PDF] ECPAT International, in collaboration with the Centre for
the Study of Public Opinion “El Pikir”, Bishkek,
2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June 2011] [7.2]
SCOPE AND DYNAMICS OF CSEC - The percentage of prostituted children in Bishkek is estimated by
the respondents quite realistically: 5-10%. Girls are more likely than boys
to be involved in sexual exploitation. In spite of the fact that girls as
young as 11 years old work, there is a greater demand for girls who are 14
years old and above. There is also a constant, though relatively small, demand
for virgins. VIII. Special Protection Measures [DOC] Committee on the Rights of the Child CRC -- NGO
Commentaries to the Initial Report of the Kyrgyz Republic on the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child, January 03, 2000 www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.24/kyrgystanNGOreport.doc [accessed 12 June 2011] [page 26] C. CHILDREN SUFFERING
EXPLOITATION (INCLUDING ISSUES OF PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY AND
SOCIAL REINTEGRATION) - Prostitution is a serious and growing social problem in the There are young women and
children, some as young as 11 or 12, traveling regularly in trains for great
distance with different mail companions. They provide sexual services before
being left at a terminus station. On arrival at the train’s destination
point, the abandoned children become street children for a day or two until
they find another traveling customer. (Peter Blackley,
SCF) Focus On Street Children In Bishkek UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, Bishkek,
6 July 2001 www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=14829 [accessed 10 June 2011] The fact is that many of the
children on the street today are working to support their families, because
their parents’ income no longer suffices.
Many work as porters, or sell newspapers, flowers or candy, or wash
cars in the streets. There have also been incidences of child prostitution. Country Overviews Childhood Poverty Research and www.childhoodpoverty.org/index.php?action=countryo#25 [accessed 12 June 2011] International Helsinki
Federation for Human Rights (IHF) Report - Kyrgyzstan - [PDF] IHF www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/46924469d.pdf [accessed 12 June 2011] [page 12] RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - Thousands of children lived in the streets, supporting themselves from
begging. Moreover, according to the newspaper Vecherniy
Bishkek and other sources, some 200,000 children did not attend school.
Instead, many were working in bazaars or as street vendors, while many
survived on stealing. Child prostitution was widespread, with young girls being
subjected to beating and group rapes. Law enforcement officials sometimes
caught street children and ill-treated them in order to make them “confess”
offenses they had not committed, in order to boost police detection rates of
crimes. Rights of the Child in Ramazan Dyryldaev
and Séverine Jacomy, The
Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights -- A report prepared for the Committee on
the Rights of Child, Geneva, February 2004 www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.37/Kyrgyzstan_OMCT_ngo_report.doc [accessed 12 June 2011] 5c. SEXUAL ABUSE, TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION -
Indeed, child prostitution is thriving in A recent field investigation was
carried out by IWPR, in four of the five Central Asian republics, on the
phenomenon of child prostitution . The research
confirmed that child prostitution is widespread in “IWPR heard reports of corruption
in both the judiciary and the police. In addition, where law-enforcement
agencies are doing their best to protect minors in the sex trade, they are often
badly under-resourced. (…) Madina, who is now 16,
agreed to be interviewed about her life as a prostitute in return for 350 soms. She described how her regular clients include
police officers, and local officials who employ her when important visitors are
in town. “I have accompanied the judge to picnics in the mountains several
times,” said Madina. “My friend came with me - she
was with the prosecutor - and some police officers came with us. They had
their automatics with them and they even let me do some shooting.” Children
from poor and abusive families are obviously the most vulnerable, including
girls from rural areas that are directly recruited by pimps who promises great financial reward for temporary
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